Where to Watch the Potters, Martin Scorsese’s Lost Masterpiece
Goncharov is the best movie you will ever see. Billed as “The Greatest Mafia Movie Ever Made,” this 1973 Martin Scorsese-directed gangster epic starring Robert De Niro, Al Pacino and Cybill Shepherd was directed by Matteo JWHJ 0715. Wait, who? Also: It’s not real.
Over the past few days, the smart and creative eccentrics who still use Tumblr have crowdsourced to create Scorsese’s fictional lost film, down to stories about its troubled production and release, scene breakdowns, feature discussions , Letterboxd reviews , a realistic looking movie. poster and fan art . And it’s all based on a strange, random copy that a Tumblr user found on the label of a pair of fake boots. Because, of course.
What is Goncharov talking about?
In the alternate universe where the Potters exist, this film is widely regarded as one of the greatest films ever made, but even there it was never officially released and thus ineligible for all of the Academic, Palme d’Or and Nobel Prizes . deserved. (Perhaps he got top marks at the Listenburg Film Festival ?) Among his memorable characters are the titular Goncharov, a Russian gangster based in Naples; his beautiful and ambitious wife Katya; and the violent psychopath/hitman Ice Pick Joe, whose penchant for killing with an ice pick is clearly a psychosexual projection of an untold trauma that befell him as a child in a Belarusian orphanage.
My Favorite Goncharov Development: After a keen-eyed Tumblr user spotted the not-yet-famous Linda Carter in the additional role of “Dancer #2″ in ” Goncharov “, the real Linda Carter took photos of herself and Henry Winkler in attendance at the 1973 premiere. film at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre . This meme is endorsed by Wonder Woman!
Where can I watch “Goncharov”?
You can’t stream Goncharov anywhere because he doesn’t exist, unfortunately, but that doesn’t mean he can’t be your favorite movie. If you dig into the history of the film on Tumblr and discard the dubs that you find stupid (Ice Joe is actually an alien? Seriously?), you can create the homoerotic 70s gangster movie of your dreams. But be warned: Reports of Cybil Shepherd and Scorsese interacting on set are problematic as hell by today’s standards. Even in the tumultuous 70s, Scorsese requiring an assistant to escort Shepard around the set in an antique wheelchair was bullshit, regardless of the acting method or not.
Why should you even care about this nonsense?
You should care about Goncharov , because this is a lively, organic satire of film criticism and evidence that the “funny” Internet of sophisticated memes created by real people who are not trying to sell you anything or promote a hateful agenda still exists. The real Internet has been right under your nose, on Tumblr, all along.
Twitter has always been crap, and now that it’s rapidly descending into an even more terrifying sewer into the cesspool of right-wing influencers and bot farm hells, I’m taking a second look at Tumblr. I might even try to dig out my old password and join an online party. Also, it again allows nudity. As weird as it sounds, I call it here: Tumblr is the wave of the future.